Posted on 01/09/2006 6:45:23 PM PST by Muleteam1
It is a mystery in the desert hills near Los Lunas, New Mexico. It has puzzled experts for more than 50 years. It has been referred to by many different names -- Ten Commandments Rock, Mystery Rock, The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone. It is most commonly known as the Mystery Stone.
Mystery Stone is located at the base of Hidden Mountain, on New Mexico state trust land, about 16 miles west of Los Lunas. It is a boulder weighing an estimated 80 to 100 tons and is about eight meters in length. Nine rows of 216 characters were chiseled at a 150 degree angle into the north face. The characters resemble ancient Phoenician script. Like the rest of Hidden Mountain, the boulder is volcanic basalt. The site was first documented in 1936, when visited by Anthropology Professor Frank Hibben, from the University of New Mexico. Any other reported visits prior to that year are unconfirmed.
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It took me a half hour of searching but I found the link to one of the more fascinating discoveries of our time.
It appears that the travellers of ancient times managed to travel six continents and leave their inscriptions around.
I know Jim Harris, mentioned in the article, he lives a few blocks from me and I help him with his Macintosh problems, he uses one for his presentations. He is in his 80's now, and mostly gives seminars around Utah.
I have handled artifacts with these inscriptions he has found in various places, and he has a tremendous catalog of sites around the 4 corners area with this script. Only about 1% of the petroglyph sites have any of these, given their extreme age.
They are typically the carved marks on sites which don't look like anything except a row of chipping.
"D. Boone Cilled A Bar On Tree In Year 1760."
LOL! Yes, the Grail is hidden at ..., wait Monty Python just walked in. Wants to use my computer.
Muleteam1
Sorry 'bout that but the song just popped into my old greying head.
He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh...
Many years ago I worked as a field researcher in the deserts of southeastern New Mexico. In the evening when the day's work was done we would all collapse around a campfire and tell tall tales. One tale that outlasted them all was mine about 'Ol Big Butt, a large nocturnal hairy critter that roamed the desert dunes and mesquite hummocks at night. He had never actually been seen but had been heard on numerous occasions because of his peculiar way of walking. At night one would hear his characteristic "thump", "thump", "boom!" His tracks in the sand seemed to reveal that he (it?) would almost always take two steps forward, then heavily fall back on his huge butt. Yep, sort of like Senator Kennedy, except the Senator falls on his fat head. Gad, now I've turned an interesting subject into a political discussion.
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Stairway to Heaven written backwards. Like, wow, man.
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I hope they have it in a protected place out of the weather etc.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/jim.html
I attended one of the symposiums here where he presented a paper, about 300 were in attendance with about 30 papers over 2 days.
They covered all manner of anthropology and archeological artifacts and explorations, his specialty is the old Negev language and where it is found. He has 4 books published, gave me one of each for my work.
He is fluent in all the Hebrew languages and several old related ones like Phoenecian. Those things on the edge of acceptance are most fascinating; like a Phoenecian coin which contains a rough representation of all the continents and Australia.
One of the most interesting are stone tablets left along the Mississippi, carved in Phoenecian, which indicate local maps and points of interest. They were found in caves about a century ago, near major river junctions. The language then was unknown. He showed me two of them.
He has one of the most intense libraries I have ever seen -- References and Cross references for all the very old languages, which he can read and speak.
Anybody who's knowledgeable may find it interesting to open those photos in Photoshop, use brightness and contrast to bring out the symbols, then flip horizontal.
Twinky's what?
That sounds like fun. Mind if I borrow it?
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